Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

Conor Oberst

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

William Shakespeare

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Charles de Gaulle

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

Henry Fonda

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

Jose Canseco

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Jonathan Sacks

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

Source Unknown

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Frederick William Robertson

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld